2.5% for Open: An inventory of investment opportunities - Google Docs

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Summary:

"David Lewis has recently proposed that libraries devote 2.5% of its total budget to support the common infrastructure needed to create the open scholarly commons....In the early stages of exploring this idea, we want to come to some level agreement about what would in fact count as such an investment, and then build a registry that would allow libraries to record their investments in this area, track their investments over time, and compare their investments with like institutions. The registry would also serve as a guide for those looking for ideas for how to make the best investments for their institution, providing a listing of all ‘approved’ ways to invest in open, and as a place for those seeking investment to be discovered. As a first step towards building such a thing, we are crowdsourcing the creation of the inventory of ways to invest...."

Link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HhVbsYP3u3zBgC6ygMT1T-AAq4o-Egi94EENq98AYyo/edit#

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Tags:

oa.new oa.commons oa.crowd oa.infrastructure oa.floss oa.budgets oa.funding oa.software oa.code4oa oa.libraries oa.redirection oa.monitoring

Date tagged:

09/09/2017, 15:10

Date published:

09/09/2017, 11:10